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Olbermann Watch, "persecuting" Keith since 2004

I am leaving New York this morning to cover the Super Bowl for Newsweek.com. Not only am I going to the game but I've been hired by Newsweek as a contributor to Mark Starr's All-Starr blog. Mark's the real sports journalist but I will be supplementing his coverage by reporting the sights and sounds of the spectacle that is Super Bowl week. If there was a "cloud 10" I'd be on it right now.

Congrats on the press credentials. It should make life a lot easier getting through the gate (and if the credentials don't get you a seat near the 50-yard-line, hopefully, you'll be at towards the north end of the field, since the replay board at the south end is a lot bigger, and the mountains behind the south end window will provide a nice diversion to look at if the Giants are losing on Sunday).

Just For The Record It's been less than it should've been - but we had a partial segment on it last night on this disconnect about W not accepting the month's extension, and I referenced it at least four times during our coverage after the State Of The Union last night.

And I ain't promising but I'm gathering stuff together for a possible S****** C****** before the week ends.

Nothing here but an ad hominem attack. Luckily we can say that Rk isn\'t a troll, sure all he does is try to provoke anger but he does dislike Olbermann, Of course ANON disliked Olbermann too but he was a democrat.

yes the sum of your posts are just attacks, you never contribute anything but. ever.

Posted by:cowy at January 31, 2008 2:13 PM
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I'm pretty sure this would qualify as a contribution. Look, there's not a single attack! Read and weep.

Bad news for terrorist detainees! Good news for us.....

Ultimately, however, Mukasey said Wednesday he would not rule on whether waterboarding is a form of illegal torture because it is not part of the current interrogation methods used by the CIA on terror suspects. His non-answer angered Democrats who said the attorney general should be able to address a legal question.

What's the purpose of using the backward slash button? Is it the drugs? Let me get this straight, you've been banned, your posts have been deleted and you claim I am the attacker? No, I am just the messenger. Now, get back to trolling, troll. I'm done with you.

The backward slashes are a telltale sign that the poster is using an ISP spoofer, either to conceal his identity, or to get around an ISP ban. You'll notice how they show up where quote marks are supposed to be? That's a side-effect of using proxy ISPs to post comments and get around a ban. And it's also cowardly.

Wrong. I said it was cowardly to use proxy ISPs to get around a ban. That doesn't make you a coward, unless of course you ARE using proxy ISPs to get around a ban. In other words, you just called yourself a coward.

That is some truly tortured circular logic, as I questioned why using a proxy server to get around a ban is cowardly. You are saying that I am calling myself a coward by admitting to use of a proxy server. Since there is nothing cowardly about I most certainly did not call myself a coward.

\"That\'s nice. I have enjoyed worming an admission out of you that you\'re spoofing ISPs to get around a ban. Mr Cox will take care of the rest.\"

Well good luck with that. Since I have never recived anything formal from Cox asking me not to frequent this blog, and since I just used a proxy server to visit this site, hardl illegal I\'m not worried.

If you had gotten beyond 3rd grade you'd know that a blog can't censor anyone. Only a government can. ANd you'd also know that nothing prevents you from posting a link to something. But you insist on cutting and pasting entire off-topic articles without attribution, and you know what I do with those. One might ask, why don't you think, why don't you think?

The nazi's ( Dollar and Cox) are starting to show their true republican colors of censorship with their banning appetite.
I suppose as we get closer to the election and the republican candidate looks worse and worse,...they will be getting even testier.

Posted by: Why Don't You Think at January 31, 2008 8:24 PM

Hey, loser. I made 2 posts over at your heros site, the bung hole and not only did they not get deleted, they didn't even get posted! No curse words, no cut and paste jobs with no attribution, I even told him that I couldn't wait for his special comment tonight. Now, go bitch at him for he is the true nazi!

The FBI has initiated a federal investigation into the recent DDOS attacks. In the event of indictments, the hackers will be prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Title 18, United States Code Section 1030 (the “CFAA”). Subsection (5)(A) of the CFAA makes it a crime to,

a. knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer.

This definition would seem to apply to both IP and e-mail spoofing. A protected computer is very broadly defined as a computer,

b. exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or
which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication.

The penalty for violating the CFAA is a maximum five years in prison and a minimum six-month incarceration for each offense. Repeat offenders can face a maximum 10-year prison term and fines ranging from $250,000 to twice the gross losses incurred by the victims. Significantly, the law also allows those affected to file civil suits against their attackers.

The conclusion: "While Mr. Edwards played down speculation that he might bring balance to the ticket as Sen. McCain’s running mate, he noted that it would be “a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to team up with an actual Vietnam war hero.”

There is some truth to the accusation that the Right is in a full-fledged panic. The proof is their nastines and pettiness. The new guidelines for this site are merly evidence of that. But, this is to expected. It doesn't matter what happens in November now. Republicans are refusing to run for re-electionin droves. The hopes of the Right now rest on a most disagreeable waffling cultist. I understand the panic. I don't imagine they ever thought these days would be over. Not that they weren't warned Bush & Co. would destroy the Reagan Revolution. They were just too arrogant and conceited to listen. Well, you are reaping what you have sown, and it is a bitter harvest. You still ought not be lashing out at those who told you this would happen simply for being correct.

DeMint was angered after learning that the Berkeley City Council voted this week to tell the U.S. Marine Corps to remove its recruiting station from the city's downtown.

"This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families," DeMint said in a prepared statement. "The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money."

"If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer-funded handouts," he added.